Welcome to the largest and most comprehensive
international website on women and sacred ministry!
We are faithful Catholics who show why the
exclusion of women from priesthood is wrong.
We raise awareness and facilitate informed
discussion about women's ordination. We promote the ordination of women as part
of the life-giving mission Christ intended for his Church. We work for reform
from the centre of the Church and within the parameters of canon law.
We love our family, the Catholic
Church. We fully accept the authority of the Pope. We respect his personal
integrity as an outstanding spiritual leader. But we are convinced that the
Pope and his advisors are making a serious mistake by dismissing women as
priests. We feel obliged in conscience to make our carefully considered reasons
known, In doing so, we fulfil our canon law duty to speak out
as our present Pope has encouraged us to do. And we do
this with deep loyalty to the Church.
“All the faithful, both
clerical and lay, should be accorded a lawful freedom of inquiry, freedom of
thought and freedom of expression.” Gaudium et Spes, no
62; Canon Law no 212 § 3.
Our aim is to help the Church reform
its way of thinking and its practice from within so that women, as well as
men, will be admitted to all the ordained ministries.
Read here the
complete texts of many contemporary Catholic theologians who give their reasons
in favour of women priests.
Our site is unique in providing in full all Roman
documents that ban the ordination of women .
Judge for yourself the arguments of the Congregation for
Doctrine in Rome.
We offer thousands of documents in
English relevant to the ordination of women. They cover decrees of councils and
synods, statements by the Fathers of the Church and medieval theologians,
historical records, contemporary articles, classical publications, discussions
on scripture, tradition and the teaching authority, picture galleries and much
more.
* SEVEN REASONS WHY - Seven indisputable
arguments in favour of admitting women to the priestly ministry *
THE
TEACHING AUTHORITY Why we dare and must challenge
it.
* OUR DEBATE WITH ROME - Why do the Pope
& the Congregation for Doctrine reject women priests?
